How Swedish Sounds to Non-Swedish Speakers ㅣPoland, Norway, Korea l FT. EPEX

How does Swedish sound to you?
Today EPEX tried to see how Swedish sounds
[EPEX}
/ epex.official
/ @epexofficial
/ epex.official

[@vinterglitter]

Hello it’s Sofia from Sweden! 🇸🇪🥰 thank you for watching! This was both fun to record and to watching it back myself. EPEX and all out friends form different countries did so well, Swedish is a hard language but they all did their best and in the end Hanna and I managed to guess the right answers! 🙌🎉 congratulations to EPEX new album release~ 🎉

[@thesexybeast1868]

Sofia om du kan, meddela den andra svenska tjejen att hon är nog en av de vackraste personerna jag sett. Hon borde ju representera svensk skönhet

[@Sakurasora01]

Så himla kul att få se mer svenska i koreanska videor som dessa, helt olika kulturer, och VÄLDIGT olika språk! Men som adopterad korean som bor i Sverige, är detta så kul!

[@vinterglitter]

@@Sakurasora01 Ja det tycker jag också hahah 🙈 roligt att du gillade videon! Ha en fin dag. ^^

[@andreasnilsson7711]

Haha denna var bra. All respekt till alla inblandade. De var riktigt duktiga. 😊

[@nanamunetoh]

❤

[@Pineslong]

They really went from a basic sentence to a tounge twister😂

[@sedan4x]

I dont hear a basic sentence, every sentence sounds like tounge twist 😂

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

lvl 2 was def the hardest.

[@ShrekIsLoveShrekIsLif3]

Im swedish

[@alanbellas513]

@@sedan4x the first one, “Jag gillar att äta IKEA köttbullar” was a common, kind of everyday language. Then it went to mean tongue-breakers.

[@MckenzieChIoe]

@@ShrekIsLoveShrekIsLif3JAG MED 🔥🔥🔥

[@AnnaBanana_00]

The first guys "jag gillar" was really impressive!

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

Feel like he tried to find similar korean words to pronounce it with. xD but guess there's nothing in korea that sounds like IKEA köttbullar haha :D

[@Daniel05554]

YESS I THOUGHT THAT TOO

[@LesaaMoshsa]

Very pretty boys here, more of this❤️

[@daysees_]

Linnea from Norway here 🇳🇴 This was such a fun shoot! Definitely need to work some more on my Swedish skills after this 😅 but everyone did such a great job~ thanks for having me and congrats to EPEX on their album release! I really enjoyed it too 🥰

[@Kpop4life573]

I am😊 norwegian

[@masolbakken]

Jeg er også norsk

[@buddy2919]

​@@masolbakkenI started learning Norwegian a few days ago and I'm so happy I could understand what you said😁

[@masolbakken]

So cool @@buddy2919

[@balamonika1671]

This is Monika from Poland, I had so much fun filming this :3

[@nanamunetoh]

You were so fun! You're so pretty ❤

[@SofieArts]

Hej hej Monika, hej på dig Monika🎶

[@Daniel05554]

You were so nice. I really liked you 😁👍🏼

[@Lampchuanungang]

💋💋💋💋

[@SkepticalCaveman]

It's actually easy to guess the answers when the sentences are very well knows tongue twisters that all Swedes know. Random sentences would actually be harder.

[@Templarofsteel88]

the second one is actually the shorter version of the tong twister. The longer one would be Sju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes av sjuttisju sköna sjuksköterskor på det sjunkande skeppet Shanghai.

[@johan.ohgren]

Dom skulle aldrig klara det.

[@marcsi05]

Somehow you missed the “skönsjungande” that was in the clip 😅 (too many variants of this tongue twister)

[@Templarofsteel88]

@@marcsi05 that is another version I have heard also with skönsjungande added to it.

[@Robman92]

Ohhh giving them a Swedish tongue twister is just pure evil 😅

[@johnnorthtribe]

The "sj"-sound and our sound for the letter "U" is unique to Sweden and Norway. We have the word "sju" which means "seven". Basically no foreigner can pronounce that word unless they have lived here for a while.

[@moondaughter1004]

I'm honestly still struggling with certain "s"-words a swede

[@iku6588]

Arabic foreigners can pronounce the word sju because they also have this word as a letter

[@juliaa5610]

​@@iku6588No the arabic sound is much harsher, so it's not the same as the swedish.

[@swestuff]

At least in Swedish the "sj"-sound isn't a connected to a single letter combination like "sj". The sound came to the Swedish language externally I believe and instead of creating a letter for it, it now depends on the letter combination or the word itself. Here are some common combination used: sk: skylt(sign) sj: sju(seven) skj: skjorta(shirt) stj: stjäla(steal) sch: schema(schedule) ch: chaufför(driver) g: geni(genius) si/ssi: explosion(explosion) ti: lektion(lesson) So that sound is something you have to learn and is not something you can find just by reading a text. One of the harder parts of the Swedish language!

[@rickardelimaa]

The difference in pronounciation between "kärna" and "stjärna" (sju)...

[@rex_8618]

I LOVE THIS SERIES YESSSS PLEASE. MORE!!!

[@irisanot11]

Yess

[@LizLumi]

As a new fan of EPEX I'm excited when I watch something of them. 😂

[@linadame4034]

Welcome to the fandom ✨

[@LizLumi]

@@linadame4034 thank you

[@therraxz]

i am from norway and we norwegians understand most swedish talk but these examples are very hard.

[@anttirytkonen11]

I immediately said that last one to myself in Finnish "Uusi albumi julkaistaan huhtikuussa", even though I've nearly forgotten my favourite language Swedish. 😜 I wonder how it would have been if a Finn had been involved in this. Especially, if a Swedish-speaking Finn (that is, a native Swedish speaker from Finland 🇫🇮) had said that "sjuttiosju sjönsjungande sjuksköteskor" because it sounds so different in Finland Swedish. 🙃

[@vinterglitter]

That would have been so fun I think! 😍👏 I hope next time~

[@jkeuphoria2656]

hi ! i am a swedish Zenith, thank you for making this! you all did a very good job! I know swedish is a very hard language but you still did very good ! congratulations to your new album i am going to listen and stream it and give it much love and support ! thank you for your hard work on the album as well, i know it needs alot of hard work making a whole album, i wish you good luck in the future stay well bye bye

[@wicked-jn9cm]

What is a Swedish zenith? What is zenith I tried translate but don’t understand

[@juliadahlstrom4108]

@@wicked-jn9cm zenith is epex's fandom name!

[@jkeuphoria2656]

@@wicked-jn9cm it is Epex´s fandomname ! ❤

[@corpsecoder_nw6746]

Written down you can pick out the roots of similar English words from Swedish or if they say it slowly. Especially subjects in a sentence, common verbs, but then some things just sound like an alien language. I've been trying to learn it.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

I didn't know that Swedish is so difficult. I know German, but Swedish doesn't resemble it and sounds as much harder to repeat. The video was funny and interesting, how Swedish sounds.

[@herrkulor3771]

Swedish has many dialects. I a video from "Petter - pissar på dig" you can hear three dialects. Otherwise more melodical "Perikles - var ska vi sova i natt" if you want to hear southern swedish/scanian.

[@moondaughter1004]

We have a lot of dialects. Some harder to understand than others. We can understand some German though cause there are some similarities between our languages

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@@herrkulor3771 I didn't know about these Swedish dialects earlier. And I've read in Internet that Swedish has characteristic melody because of some tonal (pitch) accents. But for foreigners not used to it, this is probably hard to learn.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@@moondaughter1004 And is Your grammar like in German? For instance do You also use articles to every noun (like German: der, die, das etc.)? So is Your grammar more difficult or easier than in German?

[@Sofeprop_]

@@MayaTheDecemberGirl It's fairly similar, but we only have 2 articles, en and ett. So in that sense I would say it's easier than german.

[@charlieee07]

Aww this is such an awesome series

[@planejanedaniels]

"Swedish sounds like a melody to me 🎶🌍"

[@loris-bismar]

Many people around the world seem to share your thoughts. I've heard it many times that it sounds like we're singing to one another 😅.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

​@@loris-bismarI've read in Internet that in Swedish there are some special tonal (pitch) accents, and that's why it sounds so melodic. But it's probably hard for foreigners, not used to it, to learn.

[@loris-bismar]

@@MayaTheDecemberGirl haha, i first thought you meant our different dialects (accents) had different tonal pitch and that there were a special one that was hard for foreigners to learn 😅. But yes, you're correct. The words might be spelled the same but depending on how you emphasize the pitch it changes the meaning of the word. They actually did one of those perfect ones in the video. The "four four four". To them it all sounded exactly the same, to us, they all have a different pitch.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@@loris-bismar I didn't know this earlier about Swedish. So maybe it is also easier for You, unlike for other Europeans, to learn the pronounciation in such tonal languages as for instance Mandarin, that also has different tones. For those who don't have sth like this in their mother tongues, it's really hard to catch it.

[@loris-bismar]

@@MayaTheDecemberGirl it said so when I googled in the beginning of this conversation, but I'm not convinced. Can't agree on it until I've tried 😄. Me personally though, have always had an ease to find the flow or rhythm in any language I hear (which I've always called the melody btw), but I've always thought it was because I'm musical, not because I'm Swedish. Then again, music is Sweden's second largest export so it might just be something here.

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

🎧🌍 Interesting perspective on Swedish sounds, EPEX! 👏🇸🇪

[@tabxtra7057]

As a Norwegian from the west coast of Norway, I would have struggled with most of these from number two forward.

[@PannkakaMedSylt]

The "Får får får, Får får inte får, får får lamm". (Although the usual saying also includes a "Far" & "Nej". Far, Får får får? Nej Får får inte får, Får får lamm. It translates to: Father, do sheep have sheep? no, Sheep doesn't get sheep, sheep gets lambs. Far = Father. Får = Sheep. Får = Get / Gets / Receive. Nej = No. Lamm = Lamb. Another funny word with multiple meanings in Swedish would be "Gift" Gift = Married. But also means: Gift = Poison / Venom English has some interesting dual meaning words too, it's called "Homonyms". Example: BAT (one you swing or the flying mouse kind?).

[@lunicornart]

The Norwegian girl should have understood this one. Swap/translate one single word (inte -> ikke) and it's a Norwegian sentence (a pretty weird and unusual one, but still...)

[@adp6632]

It's actually amazing how hard it can be to repeat something you have heard repeatedly

[@Mahima006]

AHHH THANK YOU FOR BRINGING EPEX!! I watch almost all the videos but dont really comment sorry 😥 hehehehe ❤i really love this channel keep going ❣😍

[@billigmad3720]

We have the same saying about the sheeps and lambs here in Denmark.

[@Straykids_fan__]

EPEX!!😭😭💗💗 LOVE THEM SO MUCH 💋

[@jkeuphoria2656]

안녕하세요 ! 저는 15 살 스웨덴 ZENITH 입니다. 이걸 만들어주셔서 감사합니다! 모두 아주 잘 했어요! 스웨덴어가 매우 어려운 언어인 건 알지만 그래도 정말 잘하셨어요! 새 앨범 축하드려요 꼭 듣고 스트리밍해서 많은 사랑과 응원 보내드릴게요! 앨범도 열심히 작업해주셔서 감사합니다, 앨범 전체를 만드는 데 많은 노력이 필요하다는 것을 알고 있습니다. 앞으로도 행운을 빕니다. 잘지내! 빠이 빠이💚

[@__LALISA__WORLDWIDENUMBERONE]

Everyone is too cute ❤

[@NomN83]

well sjuttisjuskönsjunganandeskötersrkor var kanske i det värsta laget att ha med här! ge dom en chans i alla fall! haha

[@michellenilsson9103]

Håller med. Finns bättre så dem hade haft bättre chans

[@nagelabaruma1395]

Wow, that was fun ❤❤

[@SIXcentury]

jag svär de alltid denna killed me kort hår som fkar up haha grymt video

[@juliadahlstrom4108]

omg as a swedish zenith this actually means everything to me

[@yassinsuleiman655]

Zenit?

[@juliadahlstrom4108]

@@yassinsuleiman655 yes zenith

[@jeonginhaha4827]

JA SAME

[@rickardelimaa]

What's a "Swedish zenith"?

[@juliadahlstrom4108]

@@rickardelimaa zenith is the fandomname of epex fans, and I am from sweden

[@Yeyeyayayoyo]

As a norwegian i can understand swedish because, my dialect resembles the language but not even norwegians understand what im saying, lmfao.

[@MrGunnar69]

Impressive that so much went down to the last person.👍

[@sadelouise]

Thank you for having me! It was so fun trying to figure out what we were saying in Swedish and it was a lovely time working with EPEX 💖🫶🏻✨ stay tuned for the next videos with them~ 🤭

[@Foreignmonk34]

These are the funniest videos (only after the legendary quiet library japanese videos)

[@RebeccazROBLOX]

As a Swedish person, i cant even understand what word it is😂😂😂

[@MrZloodie]

please make more, super interesting way of exploring phonetics

[@oh2mp]

This was extremely fun to watch because I understand Swedish quite well. The third one was a hard tongue twister and I think it would be hard even for a native speaker.

[@voyageur8208]

Poland ❤

[@choicezenith]

Yewang keum and Hyunwoo did so well 🫶🏻😭

[@einarkeyser1763]

omänskligt!

[@chucknorriswontdies]

I feel so alone in English. I have been watching videos where people will speak Latin to Italians, French in Portugal, hell even Old English to Germans. Most people understand the basics of what someone is trying to say. Like giving directions or asking what they prefer EG. "do you like apples or oranges" As a person who only speaks English, I have no clue what other languages are trying to say to me (not counting Spanish just because I hear it a lot). Maybe I can get a few words here and there like some German words, but never full sentences like other languages can with each other. I know the romances languages are all connected through Latin so it makes it easier, but damn what happened with English lol.

[@vicolin6126]

English was a Germanic language that got kidnapped by French. Now it is strange :)

[@helenahsson1697]

Jay Foreman has an amazing video on it. I don't remember the name but it's something about why British place names are hard to pronounce. He does a great job explaining "what happened to English". Also, I don't think you're as bad as you think. Go watch Richard Osmans house of games, and find the segment of the show (I think it's once a week) called House der spiele or something similar. You'll see that you understand more than you think. 😊

[@MadeleineMedia16]

One of the guys was so good when he was reading the paper! So impressed!

[@Jisooskzsweden]

så kul haha

[@PlayGames123Go]

Next arabischer please❤❤

[@loka-chan6695]

Omg I want to do this!!!!

[@fransz9812]

I am swedish and it's fun to watch this

[@Appe07]

Fun video! Some of the cast was very stiff, so that’s a shame

[@Nicosshalagalanis]

Haha den asiatiske killen var verkligen härlig 😂

[@vixikie]

The tongue twisters could be done humming and you would be able to guess the words as a Swede because you learn these as kids. These are basic ones that everyone know meanwhile it would be more difficult with random sentences but it was fun for the non Swedes to try them. There is another version the sentence with sju sound. "Sju sjösjuka sjömän på det sjunkande skäppet Shanghai" which basically translates to "seven seasick seamen on the sinking ship Shanghai".

[@rex_8618]

Spanish next please

[@renekravmaga8564]

The second one it's impossible, even reading I think I could not pronounce

[@rebeccaxx]

köttbullar är så gott asså haha, speciellt med makaroner

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

Doesn’t work with fellow Scandinavian countries because we are all related and especially Norwegian and Swedish are very close.

[@ankra12]

I understood everything 😂

[@user-qk9wn5fc6i]

Even Swedes may find certain words difficult to pronounce sometimes. And we also have the letters Å Ä Ö too. And the dialects also make a big difference. As I speak Eastern Gothic. If I go away outside Östergötland. So people hear immediately. Where I come from. 😂 And this girls sound the are from Stockholm.

[@emisstudying]

OMG Swedish is my mother tongue! This is going to be so fun

[@Joseph.Glvtch]

CAN You do a polish version !!!

[@happyswedishguy7951]

Could had done far får får får nej får får inte får får får lamm xD

[@vixikie]

"Får får får?" "Do sheep get sheep?" "Får får inte får, får får lamm." "Sheep, does not get sheep, sheep get lamb." Basically the same words but all have diferent meanings haha. Får basically means both get something and sheep which is so random.

[@user-bd4on1wh9b]

I’m Swedish and this sjuttiosju skön sjungande sjuksköterskor is kinda difficult EVEN for me that’s talk SWEDISH omg 😆

[@SwedishNationalist]

I have been summoned

[@ky3822]

KUEM, BAEK AND YEWANG!!!! Stan Epex guys.

[@Elsa_H-123]

Im Swedish too

[@tjincken]

Samma här

[@Puzzlerfromsweden]

😂😂👌🏻☺️❤️

[@lifeofsaffran]

I’m swedish and I still had to read the comments to understand the sheep one, like, I was like 44444 inte 444 lamm??? Like sheep sheep sheep, sheep sheep inte sheep, sheep sheep lamm??? My brain didn’t even conside different kinds of får.

[@emrenpegoyan9409]

thanks to the participants for popping by - so every face becomes to a name. thx for your 'efforts' but at least for the >>fun

[@user-rq1ke7co4f]

I wanna hear this im from Sweden

[@TwoClouds-rh3tq]

Jag är svensk och det var roligt att kolla på den här videon

[@rali2207]

did the universe just call you weak

[@n-oliviaa]

Polish liking in norway here 😭😭🩷🇳🇴🇵🇱

[@user-ft4tv7zj5k]

My name is also Sofia and I bum from Sweden to 🇸🇪 ❤

[@user-xp3mv2rv7s]

I leave in Sweden so I know end I'm afghan

[@himmelskthjarta14]

are you pashtoo ?

[@JonasFunnyVideos]

the four four four one actually means`: get sheeps sheeps, no sheeps dont get sheeps, because sheeps get lambs (im danisk and that is pretty simular to swedish)

[@andreytsyganov7321]

I wonder if they had a Turkic or Arabic speaking person because I heard "inshallah" first instead of "sha la la" :) If they had a Russian speaking person they could not stop laughing at the second sentence :)

[@RedBanana_]

Oo, what does the second one sound like in Russian?

[@Elsis210]

I am from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@Macovic]

Man that was tough sentence. A normal sentence, but start with just one or two words would be good

[@liviamattisson8493]

I am from Sweden🇸🇪

[@vollo5]

I am from Sweden

[@Dwiimor]

får får får? får får inte får, får får lamm får means both sheep and get/do so its do(får) sheep(får) get sheep(får)? sheep(får) don´t get(får inte) sheep(får), sheep(får) get(får) lamb(lamm) its a stupid tongue twister, no one says it in real life 😂

[@user-vj4dp4xr8k]

next how finnish sounds?

[@jeonginhaha4827]

SWEDISH EPEX FAN RIGHT HERE

[@ludvigekekrantz1357]

Am sweders

[@Theswedishgirl]

Nytt album släpps i april is Taylor Swift ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😮😮

[@doughmaster100th-gl7ft]

I am Sweden so its easy for me. Nytt album släpps i april. Jag gillar att äta IKEA köttbullar.

[@johanlarsson9805]

What, it should be "sjuttisju sjösjuka sjömän på skeppet shanghai"

[@MckenzieChIoe]

SVERIGEEE 🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣👏

[@Julia-ye1bj]

😂😂😂

[@Happiness57.]

Swedish is my native language but on level 3 even I got lost 😭I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO SAY 😭

[@lindagoransson8275]

Jag är svensk

[@imjustanartist3714]

I feel a lil emberassed to be part of Sweden

[@evelieningels9408]

I've been learning swedish and I thought I did alright but when they came to the 3rd sentence I was like WHUTT?? farfar får 4444 nej 4444 inte ... 4444?

[@user-hs2jk3yz6y]

🤫🧏‍♂️

[@Ananegm111]

Those headphones were really unnecessary 😭💀

[@sushi777300]

Cutest guys 😊

[@benin741]

i now sweden i am born in sweden i can speak hej hej jag är benin och jag vet inte korean

[@jaaj624]

It would be so funny with Arabic

[@InoplanityaninHP]

Russian people at 3:05, I know what kind of emotion on your face right now

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

In minute 3:05 - there is actually no one from Russia.

[@InoplanityaninHP]

@@MayaTheDecemberGirl what are you talking about? I'm a russian native speaker, it was a joke about how it sounds. No negative at all to someone. And why there's no one from Russia... Do you really think there no russians in comment section?

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@@InoplanityaninHP The girl in this minute of the video it's definitely not from Russia. That's all that I mean.

[@InoplanityaninHP]

@@MayaTheDecemberGirl I didn't mean that girl is Russian. I said to russian people, who is watching this moment, that I know their reaction ☹️

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@@InoplanityaninHP If this is what You meant, than I'm sorry. I understood it differently. You know, there are just some people who tend to call every blond European girl authomatically a Russian. And there are so many countries and nations in Europe, and not only in Europe, where people do have blond hair and such appearance as her. By the way, I don't have anything against individual Russians (if only they don't support war and genocide and don't repeat what the regime is saying).

[@linneaandersson1972]

Mitt namn är Linnea

[@yannickkamali1119]

who's the brown haired girl??

[@sadelouise]

that would be me!

[@yannickkamali1119]

@@sadelouise loved your energy!